# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakup-aga
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:27:34.908Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakup-aga"
name: "Yakup Ağa"
slug: "yakup-aga"
description: "Yakup Ağa or Ebu Yusuf Nurullah Yakub, was the father of the Barbarossa Brothers, Oruç and Hızır. He was a Sipahi of Turkish or Albanian descent from Yenice. Yakup was among those who took part in the capture of the Aegean island of Lesbos from the Genoese on behalf of the Ottomans in 1462. For his participation he was granted the fief of Bonova village of the island as a reward and the title of the village's Agha (master)."
tagline: "15th-century Ottoman military personnel"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           44.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.314834666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakup_A%C4%9Fa"
    title: "Yakup Ağa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A2%D8%BA%D8%A7"
    title: "يعقوب آغا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B1_%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0"
    title: "Якуб ага"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A2%D8%BA%D8%A7"
    title: "یعقوب آغا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakup_Aga"
    title: "Jakup Aga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakup_A%C4%9Fa"
    title: "Yakup Ağa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8047233"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump